Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
从
These are the forms of 從, the traditional character: 从 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
命
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 - See all 18 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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汤姆服从命令。
Tom follows orders.
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那我就恭敬不如从命啦。
Then I'll work on the principle that deference is no substitute for obedience.